Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Healthcare, Oil & Gas and Fast Moving Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 1.11%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 1.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Bharti Infratel Ltd (NS:BHRI), which rose 7.00% or 14.70 points to trade at 224.70 at the close. Grasim Industries Ltd (NS:GRAS) added 4.41% or 31.90 points to end at 755.80 and Coal India Ltd (NS:COAL) was up 3.46% or 5.95 points to 177.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tata Motors Ltd (NS:TAMO), which lost 2.17% or 3.50 points to trade at 158.10 in late trade. JSW Steel Ltd (NS:JSTL) declined 1.40% or 4.00 points to end at 280.80 and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NS:SUN) shed 1.32% or 5.40 points to 403.25.
The top performers on the BSE Sensex 30 were Bajaj Finance Ltd (BO:BJFN) which rose 2.79% to 4885.55, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (BO:HLL) which was up 2.74% to settle at 2294.00 and Reliance Industries Ltd (BO:RELI) which gained 2.60% to close at 1504.20.
The worst performers were Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (BO:SUN) which was down 1.33% to 403.25 in late trade, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (BO:TCS) which lost 0.93% to settle at 2194.60 and Bharti Airtel Ltd (BO:BRTI) which was down 0.80% to 543.35 at the close.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 999 to 521 and 92 ended unchanged; on the Bombay Stock Exchange, 1424 rose and 969 declined, while 163 ended unchanged on the India National Stock Exchange.
The India VIX, which measures the implied volatility of Nifty 50 options, was down 3.36% to 14.0225.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.59% or 9.50 to $1613.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.32% or 0.69 to hit $52.98 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.26% or 0.73 to trade at $58.48 a barrel.
USD/INR was down 0.10% to 71.497, while EUR/INR rose 0.03% to 77.2560.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 99.343.